“…The most widely used method for the preparation of ZnM LDHs is the coprecipitation of the solutions of salts in different Zn/M ion ratios in a basic medium, where the pH of the medium is maintained and the given materials are precipitated during synthesis. The basic buffer can be Na 2 CO 3 (Jiang et al, 2010;Kumar and Pant, 2020), NaOH (Nishimura et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2019), any combination thereof (Smoláková et al, 2011;Zeng et al, 2017;Liu and Yang, 2018;Teodorescu et al, 2020), or other solutions that are not widely used, such as a mixture of either Na 2 CO 3 and (NH 4 ) 2 CO 3 (Korošec et al, 2020) or urea, Na 2 CO 3 , and NaOH (Gil et al, 2020) or aqueous ammonia solution (Bellezza et al, 2014). The quality of the resultant product depends on the pH, which must be maintained during synthesis.…”